The debates over the relationship between International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law, have often focused on the question of whether human rights law continues to apply during armed conflict, and if ...

Practices within the area of migration and border control are often
analysed through a spatial lens. This is understandable: migration studies deal
with movement of people across different places and spaces. Internatio ...

The label 'defences' can be used to describe a range of excusing or justificatory answers to a criminal charge, or as 'grounds for excluding criminal responsibility',
according to Article 31 of the Rome Statute of the ...

International constitutionalism relates to processes of limiting traditionally
unrestricted powers of states as ultimate subjects, law-makers and law-enforcers
of international law. Human rights occupy a central, but ...

This article addresses the tension between state sovereignty and refugee protection. The application of refugee law is often harshly criticized with such modern tendencies as increased border controls ...

This article considers the suitability of employing particular modes of imputed criminal liability in trials before international criminal tribunals. It focuses specifically on the doctrines of joint criminal enterprise ...

This article analyses the relationship between international law and literature from the point of view of its form of expression. Using insights from Deleuze and Guattari's analysis of Kafka's oeuvre as a ‘minor literature’, ...

The UN Human Rights office estimated that more than 60,000 people have died in Syria's bloody civil war, surpassing the Syrian opposition's estimates by one-third. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay faulted ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the 'Cold War' has given rise to a situation where there is in effect one world 'superpower', the United States of America (US). The so called 'new world order' was intended ...

The article addresses the use of notions of gender equality and
non-discrimination in the discussions concerning the practice of Islamic veiling
by the European Court of Human Rights as well as by French authorities ...

General Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb commander, has been found guilty of war crimes and other serious violations of international law. This was the last trial judgment to be delivered by the International Criminal ...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia will this week deliver its judgment in what is the Tribunal s last big trial. Although the world has grown weary of the trials arising from the 1992-95 war in ...

This article analyses case law from the UK, New Zealand, and Canada relating to claims for recognition of refugee status presented by divorced Muslim women, revolving around the issue of child custody after divorce under ...